Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.